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Research Question: For all seasons of Jeopardy, from Season 1 through Season 35, what are the most common calendar years referenced in an answer?
Results: The top year was 1996. The decade of the ’90s was the mostly commonly referenced overall.
24% of all Jeopardy answers contained a year, with 1% of those being 1996.
Spikes on the graphs are seen at years ending in 0; many clues reference years by the decade or century only.| years | count | |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | <<<<<<< HEAD1,087 | |
| 1999 | 1,024 | |
| 1997 | 1,023 | =======1087 |
| 1999 | 1024 | |
| 1997 | 1023 | >>>>>>> dbbb711fa754a6ed367832c0c534bba454bf3ca1|
| 1980 | 999 | |
| 2000 | 994 | |
| 1960 | 975 | |
| 1995 | 961 | |
| 1990 | 906 | |
| 1998 | 891 | |
| 1970 | 868 |